TEDxTayHoWomen: #ShowingUp

TEDxTayHoWomen is licensed event supporting main TEDWomen 2018 conference, which will be held from November 28-30, 2018, in Palm Springs, California. Women the world over are no longer accepting the status quo. They're rising up, breaking out and pushing boundaries. Whatever their focus and talent — business, technology, art, science, politics — these pioneers and their allies are joining forces in an explosion of discovery and ingenuity to drive real, meaningful change.

TEDxTayHoWomen is half-day conference and great exciting experience of women empowerment. Women of Vietnam, sisters of Ba Trieu, work hard to make Vietnam better place for their children. They care, work hard, they support, they are mothers, they are professionals, they have power to say - we are #ShowingUp!

Event schedule:

9:30 - 10:00 Reception

10:00 - 12:00 Part 1

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch and Coffee break

13:00 - 15:00 Part 2

Location:

Hanoi International school 48, Liễu Giai, P. Cống Vị, Q. Ba Đình, Tp. Hà Nội

Only 100 tickets available! Each ticket includes:

● Unique experience (only 100 people can see it live from the stage)

● Great lunch of fresh and healthy food

● Delicious fair trade coffee

● Surprises and presents from event partners

● Great networking

Speakers are women, who are passionate about things they do, women in business, women in charity and community support, women professionals in what they do no matter if its financials or spiritual.

Speakers line up

Tien Luong 

Mindfullness Coach

Having a diverse background in the first decade of her career, Tien has greatly expanded her vision about human potential development. Later it has empowered her to make the connection between Western practice and Eastern wisdom, which then led to the establishment of One Life Connection Training & Consultancy in 2011. Since then, she have worked directly with more than 20 companies, trained a few hundred participants and spoken in front of a few thousand people on topics such as: Mindfulness, Core values and Motivation, Energy management, Stress reduction, Work-life balance, Happiness and Well-being.

Now based in Ho Chi Minh City, Tien design & deliver Mindfulness & Coaching programs, host social events, seminars, and public talks, as well as nurture online communities and groups of practitioners to advocate mindfulness in the workplace

Josephine Ylipää

Environmentalist & sustainability researcher

Josephine has always been passionated about environmental issues and therefore never doubted on dedicating her career to sustainability. She pursued a M.Sc in environmental studies and sustainability science at Lund University in Sweden and returned to Hanoi to work with research projects on sustainable aquaculture for Vietnam Institute of Fisheries Planning and Development. Also, she works with Lund University on research on gendered climate change adaptation for farmers in Thai Binh. She has worked on sustainability issues from many different angles but has a special interest in gender, philosophy, rural development and climate change. Besides research she has since 2011 worked in the non-profit sector on humanitarian and environmental issues through her own projects and as the chairperson or as a volunteer for national and international organisations

Nadia Deshkovets

Transfomational Coach

With 20 years business experience being top-manager, Nadia quit her job to become what her values told her to be - life and business coach, helping people in their changes and transformations. She will speak about exciting journey life changes could bring to us.

Caitlin Wyndham

Resources and Partnerships Leader at Blue Dragon Children's Foundation

Caitlin arrived in Hanoi from Australia in June 2001 and immediately fell in love with the city. What was initially intended to be a one year time out turned into a seventeen year (and counting) love affair. Caitlin has worked for various different international non-government organisations in Vietnam all focussed on addressing social exclusion, inequality, and violations of human rights. Caitlin has been involved with Blue Dragon Children's Foundation since it began, and is now a senior staff member at the organisation. Through her work and research she aims to counter individualistic narratives that serve to separate people and pit us in competition with each other. She hopes to help people to show up for each other, enable voice for the voiceless, and address inequality & exclusion wherever it is found.

Huong Dang Thi

Director of Marketing and Partnerships Engagement at KOTO

Huong's life was hard and full of danger. She had to work hard since she was little to make a living. She is a great example of self-made woman - her passion and thirst for knowledge made her what she is now. Huong thinks that all dreams can come true if you dare to hope and rise to the challenge

Chiara Squinzi

Health coach, Yoga teacher and Functional Medicine Student

After suffering a period of chronic illness and unhappiness in her 20s, due to environmental and lifestyle factors. Chiara was motivated to learn all she could about nutrition and lifestyle to find out the root causes of her poor mental and physical well-being.

Healthy plant-based eating, yoga and running soon became her daily natural medicine. After witnessing first hand what a dramatic difference the choices you make have in your life as a whole, Chiara wanted to help offers suffering with afflictions similar to what she had. This lead her to start a new career in health and wellness by founding a Holistic Company called La Holista in HK and HCMC.

and others